Saturday, July 18, 2009

Web: Looking for love in wrong place?

In the process, it finds a University of Arkansas psychology professor, Jeffrey Lohr, who suggests the answer is no, at least insofar as claims from competing companies to scientifically demonstrated superiority.

“It seems to me that everybody is marketing their product far beyond the available evidence,” Professor Lohr said. “There is none to very little effectiveness in the matching process.”

Lohr, for example, faults eHarmony's claim to happier couples by noting it surveyed people still in the "honeymoon" period of marriages (first six months) against a control group that had been married a longer period (two years). You know what familiarity sometimes breeds.

This all occasions my memory that there was no Internet when I met my future wife in 1973 (remember Island X?). We wrote stories on typewriters then. Dark ages.

The State Police say Brett McCullough, 52, of Hot Springs, was killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding a bicycle about 8:47 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 70 West (Airport Road) in Hot Springs.

Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Bart Virden of Morrilton, who narrowly survived attack ads by an outside partisan group supporting his opponent for re-election to a nonpartisan seat, doesn't intend to let the matter drop.

Enjoy these photos from today's dedication and re-installation of a new Ten Commandments monument. The first iteration of the monument was installed last June but destroyed within the next 24 hours when it was rammed by a man in a Dodge Dart.